Github user ptgoetz commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2556
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I tested this manually against HBase 2.0.0 beta-1 and HBase 1.1.2 using the
examples as well as some custom code covering trident and core storm
read/write. All tests passed. So it appears to backward compatible.